I agree, no more "moon swords" or "wrist parachutes", lets go back to the classic baton and crescent darts please!

Anyway, the two issues had a comical vibe to it, probably due to deadpool, but I don't think humor mixes well with MK. At least, not this Deadpool kind of humor.

--Previous Message-- : I have mixed feelings. : : First of all the cover. Apart from the fact : that it was almost a carbon copy of the : cover for #7 but with MK holding a knife : rather than a gun I thought the art was : lacking. : : Speaking of art I really dont rate Huats : work and dont think it fits the style weve : come to expect from a MK book, it was far : too cartoony and I cant imagine that either : the cover or the internal art will attract : many fans to the book. : : As for the storyline I thought there was an : important message in there but it was : explored in very basic and simplistic terms. : Moonknight wrestles with his own conflicted : feelings about killing, perhaps realising : that characters like Deadpool who are : willing to take life are a necessity and : almost having a relapse into killing himself : until someone else took the responsibility : away from him. To a degree weve already seen : this issue explored in the first arc of the : series so perhaps it was unecessary to do it : again so soon but in any case as they did : decide to touch on it again I thought they : could have done a better job of it. : : Finally - moonswords and wrist parachutes? : Give me strength.... : : --Previous Message-- : VotMK 8 marked the end of the Dead pool : crossover. It is jarring to me that a two : issues : now constitutes a short story because with : some : editing, this could have been told just as : effectively in 22 pages by cleaning up the : fight : scenes and getting rid of the useless : panels. The : story in this issue leads with a fight scene : where MK literally trades blows with random : thugs. It threw me off the story entirely : because : the entire missing child angle of the story : is : solved in a fight followed by a splash page : then : never addressed. The next two pages were : really : hard for me to follow because of the page : layout. : I can understand wanting a wide angle of the : fun : house, but when none of the frames contain : any : real action except the one that is logically : last : (the bottom right) it noticeably hurts the : flow : of the page. The carnival fight seemed : pretty : gratuitous, but your mileage may vary. The : crescent parachutes seemed to be straight : out of : Adam West Batman to me, and the action was : awkward as usual. I don't want to be too : cynical, : but Hurwitz's action scenes come off : confusing. : It is almost as if he understands it, and : people : who he talks to about it get it, but to a : reader : going into his action sequences cold it is a : garbled mess where honestly, I have no idea : how : these fights would look played out in front : of : me. The MK katana was over the top. MK : getting to : release some steam was a good character idea : i : thought, but arming him with his most brutal : weapon to date contradicted the kinder : gentler : MK. I can understand these critiques as just : being spoiled by the amazing talent in the : action : comic genre, so MK becoming a mainly action : book : would naturally be big shoes to fill. The : only : part I would call explicitly bad writing was : the : very end. As someone who reads this book for : the : character, showing how much more tough you : are as : the writer than the character was insulting. : You : may say that the woman (unnamed in the : issue) : would have gone and killed him, but it is : the : author who made it happen and put it on the : page. : We really didn't need to know what happened : to : the old man at the end once MK and Deadpool : weren't involved, but the author decided to : tell : us that he wanted him to get murdered in the : end. : When the whole message we've been getting : the : entire series is that MK is better because : he : doesn't kill, saying that you believe in : vigilantes executing people should probably : be : saved for another creative venture. : : Thoughts? : : :